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SOUGS FOR THE PEOPLE . so . XXX . A Song addressed to THE FBATERUXL DEMOCRATS , On tbe occasion of their First Annual Festival to «§ lefcrata the Anniversary of the French Republic , at the White Conduit Tavern , April 21 st , 1816 . Air— " AuU Lang Syne . " A ll hail . Fraternal Democrat ! , Ye f riends of freedom bail , Whose noble object is—that base Despotic power shall fail . Cbobcs . —That mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth he hurled , Aud peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world .
Associated to proclaim The equal rights of man , Progression ' s army ! inn , resolved ' , On ! forward lead thevan . TiU mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth be hurled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . To aid this cause we here behold , British and French agree , Spaniard and German , Swiss ana Pole , With joy the day-would see . When mitres , thrones , misrule and Wrong ,
Will from this earth be burled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood . Extend throughout the world . "We now are met to celebrate The deeds of spirits brave , "Who struggled , fought , and bled , and died . Their misrnl'd land to save . For mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , From France they nobly hurled . And woald have spread Democracy Throughout this sea-girt world . Though fcirgs and priests might then combine To crush sweet liberty .
'We tell them now that they must how , That man shall yet he free . That mttres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth he hurled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . Oh ! may that period soon arrive , When kings will cease to he , And freedom and equality Extend from sea to sea . Then mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , " Will from this earth be hurled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Shall reign throughout the world . SomereTown , Jobs Absott . September , IS 46 .
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SO . XXXI . " ALL MEN ARE BRETHREN . " A SONG TOR IBB PRATERSAL DEMOCRATS . BT JCUAN HAH . VET . ^ ln commencing the following song I intended it to ne sung , if worth slnsinp . io the air of " Roderish "Vicb ; Alpine dhn" ( the Boat Song in Scott ' s " Lady of the Lake" ); I fear , however , that in the course of its " manufacture" I hare managed to spoil it for that air : the critics who have " music in their soab" will decide . ] Bail to the flag of Fraternity flyiag , "XaB'd to the mast" oar brig-ht banner waves , Singly and lordly brigands defying , Breaking our fetters , we ecorn to be slaves , from the north to tbe southward , The east to the westward , Thennionrally-cryTingnearand far ; Till all the nations round , TiU the whole earth resound ,
"JUlMenare Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah ! " ' By the scourge of oppressors long we've been driven , Long have we bent - " heath the yoke and the chain ; Our labour , our bload , onr lives have been given To pamper the tyrants who scoff at our pain . The earth they have plunder"d , ManKinS they have snuder'd , Kation ' gainstnafa ' on excited to war . But no more disunited , Ourwrongs shall be righted , " All Men are Brethren 1 hip ! hip ! Hurrah 1 " Tremble , ye purple-clad , princely oppressors ; "Woe to ye , haughty and gold-grasping lords Curs'd he your false-hearted priestly abettors—More fatal their frauds than your blood-reeking Like the cataract dashing , [ swords . The avalanche crashing' , The on-rushing millions shall scatter you far . Like the hurricane roaring . Their voices ne soaring :
"All Men are Brethren 1 hip ! hip ! Hurrah J " As bright as the sky when the tempe * t is ended ; As fair as the earth when the winter is o'er—Shall g lory and freedom for ever he blended , "When the dark freezing reign of oppression ' s no The happy communion , [ more . Of nations in union , The = erj . ent of selfishness never shall mar . Then sing , brother * , sing , ¦ Le t the chorus loud ring , " All Men are Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah !"
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THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAJ ?!) . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLE . By Johk Hamphes , Junior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , JJewgate Street ; Effingham Wilsen , Royal Exchange . [ No . III . ] Onr author divides hislristory into three divisions ; the first commencing -with the conquest , and ending with the Wars of fie Roses , daring the chief portion Of which time the aristocracy were the dominant power in the State , overawing , and even unmaking and making the kings of England , and oppressing the people at their will . In the second division , during the reigns of the Tudorsand Stnarts , the regal power achieved a complete trinmpn over tbe aristocratic ; the nobles were humbled to the dust ; but for this humiliation they indemnified themselves by
plundering both church and" people , which , the better i- enable themselves to do . they hesitated at no set of baseness to conciliate the crown as the parasite ? , jackals , and bravos of the ruffianly monarclis ot the Tudor and Stuart lines . "We now come to the third epoch of this history of rascality , which the author calls the "Mole-period of the Aristocracy , " in allusion to their undermining system of sapping the liberties of the country , and the underground policy they have acted upon for getting into their own hands the emoluments of the state and the -wealth of the people . Thisthm ! period of the aristocracy commenced in 16 S 8 ; when tiiey found , after two revolutions , that the Irish-banded , bullying system , would no longer serve them . It is superfluous to add , that tiiis third period of aristocratic misrule has not yet terminated .
" With the revolution of 168 S commenced the reign of humbug . " All power was declared to emanate from the people ; the constitution was declared free and glorious ; and John Bull , tickled with this stuff , resigned himself to the tender inercies of the aristocracy , -who have from that time more tightly hound and successfully fleeced him , than the same class were able to do even in the dayB of a kingmaking Warwick , and Lord-Protector Somerset . The parties of Whigs and Tories now started into being ; and these two make-believe factions have continued to govern the country between them , down to the present hour . Onr author denominates Whip and Tory the 'Locust , " and the "Palmer-worm ;" and , quoting the Bible , says , — "That which the
palmer-norm hath left , hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left , hith the cankerworm eaten ; and that which the canker-worm hath left , hath the caterpillar eaten . '— Joel , 0 . i ., 4 . Which , being interpreted , meaneth ; ' That which the Tory hath Uft , hath the Whig eaten ; and that whieh the Whig hath left hath the parson eateth ; which the parson hath left , hath the lawyer eaten . '" The reign of William the III ., exhibits the usual rapacity on the part of the courtiers and aristocracy generally . The Whigs loaded themselves with grants of forfeited estates in Ireland , and crown property in England . In this reign many of the aristocracy
played the part of base traitors , by keeping up a COrrespondenccJ -with the expelled James , at the same time that they were in the service of William , and receiving British pay . In Anne ' s reign the country was governed by bed chamber women ; and as usual , the vilest corruption was in the ascendant , but that corruption was perfected in the succeeding reiRll under the management of Walpolc , who made it his boast that " every man had his price . " A specimen is riven by Dr . King , in his Political and Literary Anecdotes , of the masterly manner in which Walpolc silenced any opponent by the logic of his country's money .
BDTWG VOTES IS THG HOUSE OF COMMOXs . He wanted to carry a question in the House of Commons , to which he knew that there would be great opposition , anil which was disliked by some of bis own dependent ; :. As be was passing through the Court of Requests he met a member of tbe contrary party whose avarice he imagined would not reject a large bribe . He took him aside and said , " Such a question comes on this day ; give me your rote , and here is a bank-bill for JKQOO - , " which he put into his hands . The member made him this answer . " Sir Robert , you have lately served
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soma of my particular friends ; and when my wife was last at court , the king was very gracious to her , which most have happened at your instance . I should , therefore , think myself very ungrateful ( puttino tlie bill into his pocket ) it I were to refuse the favour you are now pleased to ask me . " Walpole ' s successor declared « ' that it was impossi ble to govern England , but by corruption . " On this principle all succeeding administrations , "Whic and Tory , have acted most faithfully . In the reign of William the III . was began those continental wars , in which this country was almost continually engaged down to the year 1815 . The folly of the nation in submitting to these wata , and the knavery of the aristocracy in prompting them , is furcibly *' shown in the following extracts : — ,,-.-,.-..-,-.-,,., , ..
ARISTOCRATIC-MADE WARS . The aristocracy may he said to have lived and fattened on the blood of the whole world . Wara of all kinds , and for all pretences , warsfor the balance of power in Europe ; warsof aggression and slaughter of the nativesin America , India , and Africa , have been a source of maintenance to the vast broods of the aristocracy , who did not find the whole land rental of England enough for them . We have fought fur anybody , and everybody—for anything or for nothing ; for Germans , Spaniards , Portuguese , Dutch , Belgians ! for any people that were too cowardly or effeminate to take care of themselves ; for the maintenance of despotism and popery all over the continent ; and for this John Bull not only has had to pay , but y « t owe * a debt of eight hundred millions . The most amazing thing in
nature is , that through all this long reign of deception and plunder , debt and degradation , the English people—a most active , matter-of-fact , andintelligentpeople—should have been deluded to the ruin of their nuances , and to exclusion from the constitution , by the mere aristocratic bird calls of glory ; liberty , and a national constitution , the envy andradmirationof the world ! Bui ' every sensible man Who looks well into the actual state of facts will see that this constitution has long ceased to exist ; that there is no such thing as the British constitution accotdiug to the popular idea of it ; that the people have no house , and the monarch little or no political existence . "We will go
a little nearer , and trace some of the most strikingmeiBS by which this grand delusion has to this hour been so successfully kept up , and by which the aristocracy have contrived in reality to possess themselves of everything in this country ; and of tho church and the state ; the House of Lords and House of Commons ; the sovereignty In the cabinet and the possession of all offices ; the array and the navy ; the colonies abroad and the land at home-, in a word , of every thing in England hut the debt which tbey have bestowed on the people , and left them to pay , and the trade which they despise , yet continue to extract the sweets of through the medium of taxation , in office salaries and pensions .
The eighteenth chapter is devoted to an exposure of the nature and cost of our wars since the revolu tion , and a most valuable exposure it is . From this chapter we shall cull two or three extracts : — WHT THERE WIS SO " DEBl" BEFOKK THE REVOLUTION , WHT WE HAVE A '' DBBl" SOW . And here let us again impress it firmly on the mind and memory of the reader , that before the revolution we had no public debt . With a'l the long , mighty , and bloody warsin which Englandhad before been engagedwhether the crown sod aristocracy were tearing the vitals of the land , or seeking for glory , plunder , and fresh territory in France—we had never accumulated a debt . And why ! For the simple reason , that till that period the aristocracy had to pay for the war charges as well as all others ; and had they nccoraubtted a debt , they
knew that they would hare to pay that tod . But tbs infamous bargain with Charles II . for his restoration , which we have explained , altered this situation of things altogether . The aristocracy threw the burtbtr . - . from thems Ives upon the people , and then it became not only amatterof indifference how much was spent , and how much debt was incurred , but an actual matter of profit , for the more war the more employmont for them and theirs ; the moreexpEnditure the more peculation . Accordingly William of Orange had not been long on the throne before the continental war , into which his accession ltd , US , began to be very expensive ; and in the eight year of his reign , tbat is , in 1636 , his ministers proposed the sure and bold scheme of creating adbt ; that is , of forestalling the year ' s revenue by borrowing money upon state counters or Exchequer tellers , bearing interest , aivJ secured on supplies voted in succeeding sessions .
This was the commencement and first creation of that mode of forstalling the revenues which has grown to so enormous an extent , and produced a debt of eight hundred millions in less than a hundred and fifty years , To place the selfisn care of the aristocracy on the one hand , aud its selfish recklessness on the other in their trmlight ; its care to avoid loading itself with debt , while it was bound to pay it . audits care to load the people with debt when the people became bound to psy it , aud they , the ar istocracy , were for the most part the receivers of and gainers by it ;—let any man only reflect for a moment , that from tbe hour that the aristocracy came into this country with the Conquerer , till the revolution , 622 years , they fought end scrambled , evenforthe crown , but shunned a debt actually far more than they shunned the
devil ; but , from the revolution to the end of the last war , 127 years , they spent three thousand three hundred and eighty-three millions in war taxes , and piled up a debt of eight hundred and thirty-four millions . ' If any poor man , ay , or any man , wants to know how this wicked waste and extravagance has affected him , and does hourly affect him and his children , let bim look at the cost of articles of life before the debt began , and what that cost is now . Let bim trace the growth of the debt and the growth of the cost of the necessaries of life , and he will see that 0 * 2 has kept pace exactly with the other . He will see that for eve y man murdered by the aristocracy in the continental wars , and for every pound of debt laid on the nation to pay for it , Providence , with a rigorous I hand of retribution , has laid on the lives of us , who
suffered this to go on , a tax of dearness and scarcity . We have suffered our aristocracy to destroy life by millions abroad by our money , aud the means of life to us , the permitters , have been made , in a direct and progressive ratio , more difficult of access . Wheat , that in 168 S was about 46 s . per quarter , and sometimes much less , nut more than 26 s ., gradually mounted with the debt , till , in 1793 , it valued 127 s ., and at the end of the war was still , with all our increased foreign supplies , 116 s . Heat rose from lid . per pound to 9 d . and Is . ; butter from ad . to Is . Gd . and 2 s ; cheese from Id . and 3 d . to fid . and Is . ; peas from 2 d . a bushel , till , in 1800 , tbey were 13 s . 5 d . ; beer from 5 s . lOd . a barrel to 20 s . 4 id . ; candles from 6 $ . Cd . per dozen pounds to 10 s . Gd . ; coals fr- > m 31 s . per chaldron to 51 s . id . ; shoes from 4 s . to 12 * . ; clothing , and all other articles , in like proportion , especially house
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SUBSIDIZING CONTINENTAL CUT-THROATS . If the history of our continental subsidies and their application could be written in its naked reality , and as it is ridiculed on the continent , it would present a revolting and humiliating scene . The hard-earned money wrung from our own brave and hard working people , till they rose in their misery , and even threatened king and government with destruction , went to be divided among ; t a host of despots and harem slaves . It went to pamper tbe sloth and lust of whole styes of great Westphalian boars , and other German swine . It wen *
to pay the debts and mistresses of men that were loathed by their own people as monsters of sensual filth , and gravelling petty princes who had not a soldier to bring into the field , such was the ignorance or the criminal carlessless of our Government , re . ceived large sums with which they satisfied greedy concubines and long-waiting creditors , and then plunged into still deeper sensual mire , in reliance on the lavish , uascratioisioe and exhaustless subsidies of England . The Stories Of such facts that are circulated in Germany , are painful to English ears .
Those princes that did bring men into the field , such as the Hessians , Brunswickers , & c , —the Menschen-Verkaiifer , or Man-sellers , as they are styled by their own people , were rapacious beyond all example . During tbe American -war , we bad employed these Hessians , JSrunswickere , and the like , at a cost that excited general indignation . Besides paying £ 7 10 s . for every man , the Duke of Brunswick , who furnished only 4084 men , had an annual subsidy of £ 15 . 519 . The Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel , who furnished 12 , 000 men , bad £ 10 , 281 a-year ; tbehereditary Prince of Hesse , for his miserable quota Of CSS men , bad his £ 6 , 000 a-year I And besides this , we were bound to defend their territories from nil attack ! Nay , besides their annual subsidies , Brunswick was to receive double subsidies for two years after his troops wre dismissed ; and the others , like advantages . In short , these Mansellers had sold their slaves—the offscouring of their population , not raised as now by conscription , but raked together by any means , —something dear ,
about 17 , 000 mercenaries , costing us a million and a half yearly . In the French war our bargains with these people were equally absurd . The Hessians had tbe like proportion of pay and subsidy ; and tbe Duke of Bruns . wick , for his wretched knot of 2 , 289 dud , his £ 16 , 000 ayear subsidy . ' But , as we have « aid , this was not all jwe paid the Great Powers to our own actual mischief . We paid the Emperor of Austria from two to four millions yearly . The Austriaws were , perhaps , tbemost honest in thecause of all the Germans , and fought very doggedly , but with little judgment , and less success . They were so slow that they were actually useless in any attempts to co-operate with them . Nelson , who was sent to assist tbe South of Italy , in conjunction with them , in 1794 , was driven almost frantic by them . " This army , " Bald lie , " lB Blow hOJOnd all description , audi begin to think the Emperor is anxious to touch another fire millions of English money . As for these German generals , war is their trade , and peace is ruin to tbcro ; therefore , we cannot expect that tbey shall have any wish to finish
the war . The subsidizing of Austria ' continued up to 1737 , in which year We find iu April a vote Of £ 2 , 000 , 000 to the Emperor , £ 1 . 200 . 000 having bucn sent bim only in November previous . ' and in the following October he made peace with Buonaparte , at Caropo Formio , and his estates beearoc subject to French levies , which our money went to pay- Again , encoutsgedby a promise of money , the Emperor Francis declared war in 1809 on Buonaparte . This was done in May ; aud in October of the same year , in about five months , Buonaparte was in the Emperor ' s capital , and levied £ 3 , 000 , 000 of English money on bim for the expenses of the war . "
-Russia we subsidized at the rate of from two to three millions a-year . In 1799 , we were paying the Emperor Paul £ 112 , 000 a-month , with which money he built and repair , d men of war , and in the following year swept
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with them our merchantmen out of the Baltic and Northern Seas ; . and we find the king of England announcing to his Parliament in April , 1801 , that his late subsidized ally " had already committed great outrages on the ships , persons , and property of his subjects , " having made a league with our enemies of Sweden and Benmark to do all possible mischief to our trad .- and people in the north , and to cut off from us all necessary supplies of corn thence 1 This was madness enough on our part , but was far from the worst . We were not only subsidizing all , even the smallest powers of Europe , such as Sardinia , at £ 400 , 000 a-year , but we were actually in league with all the most confirmed villains in it , down to the very Dey of Algiers , who was , in fact , licemed by us to practice bis Corsair atrocities on Christian nations . THE MOSEY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE EMPLOYED TO
AID THE DESTRUCTION OP POLAND . At the very announcement of our coalition against France , who were our allies ? Prussia , Itussia . and Austria , the very powers that for years we have so vehemently taunted with the violent dismemberment of Poland . In 1793 , when we had issued high-sounding manifestoes , that we aud our allies were going to chastise the French for their crimes and their robberies , and our Duke of York had advanced into the Netherlands to meet those allies , where were they ! Busy in robbing and dividing Poland amongst themselves ! "The arguments used by the spoilers ,, ' says the historian , "threw ridicule and discredit OD Our manifestoes , and made the French believe that the coalition also meant to plunder and partition France . "
It was a melancholy farce . We were pretending to enforce justice on a great nation , in company with the most notorious robbers in all Europe . This , unfortunately , however , was but one occasion of this kind ; a still worse occurred in 1794 . The allies were again preparing to make a grand stand against the French in the Netherlands . The king of Prussia , who bad in reality been tampering with the enemy for a separate peace , declared , that unlets he had a grant immediately of £ 2 , 200 , 000 , he would march off . Tbe money was granted , as money always was , if asked for , even under the most suspicious or absurd circumstances as the present , and he did march off still , and to some purpose . He did not appear in the field at the time appointed with the allies , and it was found that he was gone into a still more disgraceful
one . Kosciusco , the brave Polish patriot , had roused his countrymen for a last effort against their oppressors , our own dear allies , and with our money Frederick had marched off , joined the Russians , and , defeating Kosciusco , made the third , s . nd final partition of Poland S In the meantime , our army in the Netherlands , in conicsequence of this . desertion of Prussia , suffered great slaughter and repulse . We had , indeed , not only paid our £ 2 , 200 , 000 for the extinction of Poland , but for the slaughter of our own troops ! Few , when they lament the fate of Poland , and denounce in terms of deepest contempt both Russia and Prussia , its violators , are aware that we were the unremonstrating allies of these
caitiff powers , and that our money , the troops raised and paid by us , and which , without this money , could not have stirred a foot , went to do this disgraceful work , making England an active and efficient partisan in it , nay , the most efficient of all , for without our pay they could not have effected it . Saving effected it , tbe king of Prussia , who , as we have said , was at the very moment we paid him this £ 3 , 200 , 000 tampering with tbe enemy , immediately made peace with him 1 Such was the manner in which our reckless ministers , with their eyes open , were duped out of their money for purposes must disgraceful to our name ; and such were the men whom they were morally trying from year to year to bribe to the delivrranee of themselves .
The nineteenth and twentieth chapters contains further exposures of political corruption from the time of the " Glorious Revolution" of 1688 . Our reforming friends the Whigs are handsomely showed up . Their plunder of the public fully equalled anything perpetrated by the Tories , and to them we owe the chief of the despotic acts which have rendered our blessed ' ' constitution" so complete a farce . They repeatedly superseded the Habeas Corpus Act ; they passed the Septennial Act to establish seven instead of three years parliaments ; and to them we are indebted for the Riot Act , which has been E 0 often employed to stifle the voice of the people . In these chapters is contained some " spicy" anecdotes of the moral doings of the blewed Gnelphic breed . George I . had , betides English ones , two German mistsesses : —
In the disturbances connected with the South Sea Bubble , in which we hare seen that these Gorman ladies , who , by the bye , were very ugly , were so completions , tho mob one day surrounded the carriage of one of them with great demonstrations of violence . She put out her head , and in her broken English said— " Why do you abuse us , good peoplrs ? Wearecomc forall jour goods !' To which a fellow most aptly replied— " Yes , curse you , and for all our chattels too I " We have all heard George III . trumpeted for his domestic virtues , more particularly for
" That household virtue , most uncommon , Of constancy to a bad , ugly woman !" But the light shed by John Hampden , jun ., reveals some ugly facts , perhaps not very widely known . Thus we have an account of the bible-loving king ' s Quaker dearie , Hannah Lightfoot , which account proves George to have been a bigamist . There is considerable doubt that Queen Charlotte was the legal wife of George III ., if she was not , all her children were bastards , and consequently the right of Victoria to sit on the throne is , to say the lea-t , questionable ! But whichever was the legal wife , one thing is certain , Georee III . had two wives . By Hannah Lightfoot he had several children . It is
said that a son of George and of Hannah Lightfoot was retained about court and advanced to the rank of a colonel , when the Princess Amelia , daughter of George and Charlotte , became attached to him , and George had the horror to discover that , unaware of the relationship , his favorite daughter liad privately married her half-brotiier r So much for royal morality . It is unnecessary that we should go into the history of the notorious ! Prince William , afterwards William IV ., and the unfortunate actress Mrs . Jordan , left to perish in poverty , and find a foreign grave ; the scandal of the Duke of York and Mrs . Clarke , and the boundless and costly amours of the modern Tiberius , George IV . with his Mrs . Robinsen , Mrs . Fitzherhcrt , Lady Jersey , & c , & c .
The frightful corruption carried on by ministers and the aristocracy generally to make and keep the House oi Commons a mere place of traffiick through which the money of the people was infamously obtained , and afterwards as infamously expended , we cannot go ints , but we will just quote from a speech by Chatham , denouncing
PAnLUMESTAUY COBHT 3 PIIO !! . In 1770 , Chatham , in a fit of virtuous indignation , exclaimed , " Tbe minister who is bold enough to spend the people's money before it is granted , even though it be not for tlte purpose of corrupting their representatives , deserves death ! " And on finding opposition to intuiiry into government profusion , he made this remarkable declaration . " Does tbr king of England want to build a palace equal to his rank and dignity 1 Does he want to encourage the polite and useful arts 1 Does he mean to
reward tbe hardy veteran who has defended his quarrel in many a rough campaign , whose salary does not equal that Of SOroe of your servants ? or does he mean , by drawing tbe purse-strings of his subjects , to spread corruption through the people , to procure a parliament , like a packed jury , ready to acquit his ministers at all adventures ? I do not say , my lords , that cortuption lies here , or that corruption lies there , but if any gentleman IU England were to asli whether I thought hoth houses of parliament were bribed , I should laugh in his face , and say , " Sir , is it not so ?"
The agitation for a reform of parliament which commenced about this time our author briefly sketches down to the carrying of the Reform Lill , of which he quietly says : — " John Bull got a paper document called the Reform Bill , and fancied it the genuine title to his estate . " ,,
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THE FAMILY HERALD . Part 40 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Besides the continuation of Eugene Sue ' s new and interesting work , Martin the Foundlinq , there are several tales and articles of considerable interest in this Part . We have selected some extracts from two articles on France and Frenchmen by the Editor , Which our French friends would do well to ponder on . There is , at least as regards the people , an universal desire in this country to regard the Frenchpeople as our " natural friends , " with pain , therefore , we view those outbursts of national vanity which Michelet has so foolishly published , and the Editor of the Family Herald so properly castigated . It is ' only fair to add the confession , that in the course of their history , Englishmen have been as great fools ai regards this nationality humbug as any people on the face of the earth ,- but that delusion has lost its charms on this side of the channel , may it soon be as harmless on the other side .
FRANCE—A FEW HINT SINSPECTING OUR GALLANT NEIGHBOURS . Of all nations in the Western world , the French have the highest idea of themselves , national vanity seems so natural to a Frenchman that he never perceives the absurdity of which he is guilty when he speaks of France in the impassioned language peculiar to his countrymen . He seems to think that we foreigners ought to feci as lie does in reference to French superiority , and even to envy him theglovy of being a SQO of France . To pit France against the world is so familiar to a Frenchman that he takes it for granted that France alone is enual to all the
rust . " The day the world conspires to come and take a close view of France , " says Michelet in his People , " will he hailed by our soldiers as the finest in their lives . " A curious boast for an historian , who ought to know , at least , that the most heroic deeds of France were accomplished under the auspices of an Italian chief—a Corsican master . If France was then the centre of the world , Italy was the centre of the French army . Could France produce an Emperor ? «« AU 1 ray hope is in the flag . " snys this worshipper ofllars , "' that it may save France the France of the army . May our glorious army , upon which the eyes of the world are fixed , maintain itself pure ! " " Uo'y bayonets of Frauce ! watch that nothing
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may darken that g . Jmp 8 n ^ rable to n i : uTmSS , ^ s ^^ SifZ ^ T 01 the *™^ ion * and Lreover it shows Whence the greatness of the nation is derived and on what the hope of the nation rests . Who but a Frenchman could S 8 y Am eu to such a prayer ! And yet , tins same Frenchman calls France the universal nation ! According to him Prance writes books for all the world . " Tbe English scarcely write anything now-a-daya but articles in Review * . As for German books who reads them but Germans I" The French do not read them evidently ; but this only shows the greater universality of the Ger nan mind , for ' Germany reads French , English , and German books , while France reads French books only , and simply believes that they are the only books worth reading ! Yet all its philosophy is borrowed from Germany . It is impossible to got political truth from a Frenchman . Apparently he seems to be blinded
by his palrte mania , his unreasonable love of country , which goes so far beyond the limits of politeness , ns to make him speak disrespectfully of every other country but his own And yet , great as this nation is , according to Michelet himself , in the book above quoted . " the people" are all slaves . His book is divided into chapters . The first treats of the bondage of thepeasimt ; the second the bondage of the workman ; the third of the bondage of the artizan ; the fourth of the bondage of the manufacturer ; the fifth of the bondage of the tradesman ; the sixth of the bondage of the official ; the seventh of tbe bondage of the rich man and the burgess . Now , what is leftfor Liberty , who has taken up her abode in France t The France of a Frenchman's worship is an ideality , it has no existence . Whenever he comes to describe the real France faithfully , his ideal disappears . It is a phantom which bis patriotism has conjured up .
France defeats its own ends by bepraising itself . " Who has a literature ' " says Michelet , a member of the Institute , a teacher of adults . " Who still sways the mind of Europe ! We , weak ns we are are . Who has an army ! We alone . England and Russia , two feeble bloated giants , impose an illusion on Europe , Great empires—xoeakpeoplel Let France be united for an instant—she is as strong as the world ! The first thing is that before the crisis ( the coming battle ) we should reconnoitre ourselves well , and have not as in 1702 and in 1815 , to alter our line manoeuvres and system in presence of the enemy . The second is that we should trust in France , and not at all in Europe . " It is a pity that France is in Europe . Why do not the French Geographers make it a distinct quarter of the world ? or nhy don't they compose their maps like the Chinese , France in the centre a great nation , and the Barbarians outside occupying little corners !"
To crush all nations seems to be a favourite idea . " Have we not armies and fortresses enough , " saye Michelet , " to pen them up and watch them till - a favourable opportunity occurs to crush them altogether !" It is melancholy to fee a great man , for he is a great man , indulging in such murderous expectations . It is the moral weakness of his mind , and it is the weakness of France . '' The day when France , remembering that she was and must be ( doitetre ) the salvation of the human race , surrounds herself with her children , and teaches them France , as faith and religion , she will find herself living , and solid as the globe . " So says Michelet ; a most theatrical claptrap for Frenchmen : England does not talk in this manner . England makes fun of herself under the portly personification of John Bull , whom she inn itt vith all the good humour , simplicity , and
credulity of an easy , fat , well-fed , old gentleman , with , out any pretensions whatever , Britannia , DO doubt , blows a little on her couch , as she rules the waves on a bale of cotton , and the British lion sometimes wakens up in a Bentinck oration , and shakes his mane and gives a noble roar , as any other lion might do in the zoological gardens for the amusement of the public ; bat we never heard of any English madcap ever proposing to teach England as a faith and as a religion , or boasting gravely that England has been and mtut be ( two very contradictory assertions ) the salvation of the world ; nor does any British philanthropist ever suggest the idea of collecting all the children of Great Britain , from one or two years , to sit together before special education begins , and learn nothing but England ! " Ou Von n ' apptendrait rien autre que la France . " Poor little dears !
If France thinks that by such manners she can com . mend herself to the world as tho leader of civilization , she is mistaken . The truth is , that Frenchmen have lost character and influence by this' very spirit . They did not speak aud write thus in the middle ages , when Franca was comparatively greater than she is now . in the days of Abelard and Ramus they were more cosmopo . litan , and therefore greater . Instead of rising in power and influence by becoming Frenchmen , they have fallen . England and France , however , have in a limited capacity a mission of immense mundane importance
England has the greatest navy—France the greatest ' army . France by land , and England by sea , have for some time past been all-powerful in civilization . Any man who is reasonably disposed , and not converted into a fool by petty patriotic vanities , may easily perceive that England and France hold two of the very first places in the arena of civilization . Germany ought to be as . sociated with them . These three nations cannot be mistaken—Germany for abstract thought ; France , for popularizing that thought ; and England , for practically attempting it .
Michelet compares France and' England to the two electricities , positive and negative ; and had he reasoned throughout this singular book of " Tho People " upon this hypothesis , he had done well ; but he only acknowledges it with an apparent show of candour , and then immediately returns to tbe abuse of England , as if it were painful to him , even for one minute , to suffer England to share with France the glory of giving salvation to the genre hurnain ( human race ) . We hope that there is no such jealousy in England , and that wc are perfectly willing to share with all nations the honours competed
for ; indeed , the more we know of other nations , the more we shall be convinced that they have all been contributors to tbe great work ; and ao beautifully has the whole arrangement been made , that even the black man , the doomed slave ot' the white , comes in for his prize , as having in an hour of white barbarity and darkness preserved the light of science , trimmed its lamp , and handed it westward and northward , whither it was at first commissioned . Humanity and charity will at last regard all nations as one , and annihUiate petty national iealouties in tlte idea of the universal nation of . man ,
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THE REASONER . Part 3 . Edited by G . J . Helyoake . London : Gr , Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster-row . There are several well-written articles in this Part , amongst which we most particularly single out an article on " The Duty of Inquirers after Truth . " The Editor gives his . readers some reminiscences of his early acquaintances amongst public men , and amongst them figures Mr . Geohoe Combe , the wellknown author of " the Constitution of Man , " and Professor of Phrenology . This gentleman figures anything but creditably in the pages of the Reasoncr , The narrative of the Editor ' s early disappointments in his intercourse with such " philanthropists' ^?) as
Combe , tells funnily enough tor the reader , out the circumstances narrated must have been " nae fun " to G . J . H . at the time . Amongst the selected matter will be found a reprint of the pith of the celebrated pamphlet " Killing no Murder" by Colonel TlTOS , Which is said to have caused the death of Grouwell through the anxiety it occassioned that distinguished usurper . To those who have not read the pamphlet this reprint of extracts will be highly interesting . Some day we may dish up some of the tyrant-hating colonel ' s arguments for the readers of the Star . There are several articles we should like to quote—or quote from , but we can find nothing sufficiently brief as well as suitable for our columns but the following beautiful lines . —
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR . CfUNMNG . I do not come to weep above thy pall , And mourn the dying out of noble powers ; The poet ' s clearer eye should see , in all Earth ' s seeming woe , the seed of Heaven ' s flowers . Truth needs no champion : in the infinite deep Or everlasting Soul her strength abides . From Nature ' s heart the mighty pulses leap , Through Nature ' s veins her strength , undying , gHdc « , Peace is more strong than war , and gentleness , Where , force were vain , makes conquests o ' er the wave ; And lore lives on , and bath a power to bless . When they who loved are hidden in the grave . The sculptured marble brags of death-strewn fields , And glory ' s epitaph is writ in blood ; But Alexander now to Pinto yields ; Glarkson will stand where Wellington hath stood .
I watch the circle of the eternal years , And read for ever in tho storied page One lengthened roll of Wood , and wrong , and tears , — One onward step of Truth from age to age . The poor are crushed ; the tyrants link their chain ; Tne poet sings through narrow dungeon-grates Man ' s hope lies quenched ; -and lo ! with , alcad / usl gain , Freedom doth forge her wail of adverse fates . Men slay the prophets ; fagot , rack , and cross Make up the groaning records of the past ; But Evil ' s triumphs are her endless loss , And sovereign beauty wins the soul at last .
No power can die that ever wrought for Truth ; Thereby a Jaw of Nature it became , And lives unwithercd in its sinewy youth , When ho who called it forth is but a name . J , R . Loweli
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Effects op Railwats . —The extensive range of stabling and coachhousea attached to the Bell and Crown Inn , Ilolborn , are being converted into dwelling places , the introduction of railways having taken all the coaches off the road that used to stop at this inn . There are , in or near London , 41 Charles-streets , 20 Church-streets , 21 George-streets , 28 Highstreets , 28 John-streets , 35 King-streets , 23 Newstreets , and 23 Queeri-streets . Novel Imposition- —A number of men , dressed as Armenians , are now going about professing to sell rurkey rhubarb , which in many instances turns out to be only hard wood coloured to imitate the real article .
Rates of Travilmng . —A Contrast . —When the lino of rail is completed between Berwick and Newcastle , the journey from Edinburgh to London will be a matter of fifteen or sixteen hours . Little more than a century ago we find the following : — " 9 th May , 1734 . — -A coach wiil set out towards the end of next week for London , or any place on the road . To be performed in nine days , being three days sooner than any other coach that travels the road ; for which purpose eight stout horses are stationed at proper distances . Or you may have a bye coach at any time , upon acquainting Alexander Forsyth , opposite to the Dulse of Queensbcrry ' s lodgings in the Canongato . Gentlemen and ladies will be carried to ttteir entire satisfaction .
New Political Society . —A new political association the motto of which is " AU men are Brethren , " has lately been formed in London , and is daily receiving new accessions to its numbers . The principles of the Association are of the most liberal kind—one of its chief characteristics is , that it is not confined to Englishmen , but comprehends among its members men of all countries and climes . Among its officers are German , Frenchmen , Greeks , Spaniards , Italians , Poles , and even Russians . The motto on the card of admission is printed in the German , French , Greek , Spanish . Italian , and Polish languages . The Society holds its meetings weekly , when speeches are made and patriotic songs sung in the native language of the various members . One of the objects of this Society is to promote the
cause of a universal fellowship—with which view it is intended to celebrate in turn all the great triumphs of popular principles which have been achieved either in Europe or America . —Morning Advertiser . A Minature Newspaper , —In Alyth , a village in the north of Scotland , there is a regular weekly newspaper published , price one halfpenny , and about half the size of an ordinary street ballad . It is entitled the Myth Recorder , and as it takes a brief notice of what occurs in the district , is chiefly in tended to " bo transmitted by letter to friends at a distance . " It records the fairs , public meetings , accidents , weather , births , marriages , and deaths , taking place in Alyth ; together , with occasional anecdotes , scraps of verses , and riddles . —Glasgow Citizen .
SisGULAn Bequests . —The will of Mary Anne Johnson , late of lVell-waJk , Hampstead , spinster , who died on the 6 th ult ., passed the seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , on the 1 st instant . The personal estate of the testatrix is sworn under £ 25 , 000 . The will contains the following bequests : " I give to my black dog Carlo an annuity of £ 30 a year during the dog's life , to be paid half-yearly . Unto each of the cats , Blacky , Jemmy , and Tom , I give an annuity of £ 10 a year for the three cats , to be paid haJf-ycarly . Margaret Potson and Harriet
Holly , my mother ' s old servants , to take charge of the dog and cats . "—Query—What will the authorities at the Legacy Duty Office do ? As it respects " Legacy Duty , " the legatees arc certainly " strangers in blood" to the deceased , and in that capacity are liable to a duty often per cent , on the value of their life interest ; but the Legacy Duty Act , on the other hand , says nothing about duty payable on legacies bequeathed to dogs and cats . The subscription to the Wilderspin testimonial amounts to £ 1 . 000 .
"Dibv yon Love . " —About a month ago , a mail was found in the Bois de Bologne , having committed suicide ; but it has only been just ascertained that he was a native of Berlin , named Kaufman , tie Was a distinguished poet , Who had translated into Gorman the plays of Shakespeare and the poems oi Burns . He left his own country in ISiS , upon the recommendation of the celebrated pianist Liszt , and at Paris became affianced to a young German lady . She , however , died suddenly , and her loss rendered lite insupportable to him . Only two days be'brs the fatal act . he bad accepted ' the appointment of tutor in a high family at Paris , with a salary of 2 , 000 f ., besides bis board and lodging . Among his papers were found two plays in manuscript , and the commencement of a translation of Dante ' s Divina Comedia . —Galignani '
Spring Again—From the extraordinary heat of the season the trees on the boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which had begun to wither , ure now pushing forth fresh ones . Some chesnut trees in tho Place Royale afforded the singular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , large blossoms , and fresh green leaves , all at the same time . Fatal Accident . —On Saturday afternoon , a fatal accident occurred to a fine young man , a coalwhipper , named Sullivan , off Stone Stairs , RatclifF . He was practising in a small skiff for a rowing match , when his frail bark was upset by the swell of a steamer , and the unfortunate man lost his life in consequence .
A I act for Free-traders . —The Leicestershire Mercury States , that the operative framework knitters of Desford and other villages in tho county have deserted their stocking frames and betook themselves to the woods to gather blackberries , for which they find a ready market in Leicester , and realise more by this means than they can at their usual occupation . The Weilixgton Statue is at length finished . When we state that from the body of the horse to the ground , about nine feet intervene , and that the knee joints are as large in circumferance as the body of an ordinary man , some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the propoition , both of tho horse and rider . The weight of metal in the statue exceeds forty tons . The entire weight of the statue , carriage , Ac , will exceed sixty tons , and about thirty of the most powerful dray horses will be employed to draw it , from Mr . Wyatt ' 3 to the triumphal arch at Hyde Park-eorner .
New Rules for Friendlv Societies . —By the 13 th provision of act of last sessions ( 9 th and 10 th Vic . c . 27 ) , which Act is to be construed with and as part of the Acts relating to Friendly Societies , 10 th Geo . 4 , cap . 56 , and the 4 and 5 \ Vni . 4 , c , 40 , it is enacted that afterthe passing of this Act , the Registrar of Friendly Societies in England , Scotland , and Ireland , shall not certify the rules of any friendly society , established after the passing of the Act , for the purpose of securing any benefit depending on the laws of sickness ormortality , unless such society shall
adopt a table which shall have been certified to be a table which may be safely and fairly adopted for such purpose , under the hand of the actuary to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt , or of some person who shall have been at least five years an actuary tO some insurance company in London , Edinburgh , or Dablin , and the name of the actuary by whom any such table shall have been certified shall be set forth in the rules and printed at the foot of ail copies of such table printed for the use of the society .
Mr . WaKLET , lias received several letters from ladies , many of them of rank and title , offering to co-operate in purchasing the discharge of Cook , Matthcwson , and other witnesses examined at the inquest on White , the soldier , who was , ' ffo ; . 'gcd to death at Ilouns'ow . HUMAN Depravitt . —There is now exhibiting at Valencia , says the Espanol of Madrid of the 5 th , a child fourteen months old , half of whose body is black and half white , covered with extraordinary marks . Its legs are deformed ; one of its arms is nearly in the natural state , but the other is like that of a monkey .
A Fact , next to a . Miracle— There is now living at Farrington Gurney a young woman , named — Comber , aged abaut 20 years , daughter of James Comber , stonemason , who has not tasted a morsel of solid fond for the last nine years . In or abaut the year 1837 she had a sister die , and the occupation of her mother required her absence daily from home , leaving the present afflicted daughter in the house with the corpse . It is conjectured that this circumstance affected her mind , and worked upon her nerves so strondy , that it induced her affliction .
She in a short time gradually weakened and took to lier bed , where she was seized with Iocked-jaw , and from that tinie to the present she has not opened her mouth . The only substance which has been taken into her stomach is fluid , which is passed into her mouth with a spoon through a small opening where a tooth is misaing . And although lying in this state for such a length of time , she hss grown nearly six inches in length ; she is quite sensible , happy , and resigned , and appears to be often engaged in prayer . —Plymouth Journal .
The Schoolmaster . Wasted—Six marriages were solemnised at our parish church on Sumiay last , and , out of the-i twelve newly-married persons , only one could write his name . Of the twelve witnesses to the ceremony not one could write . Thus , of twentyfour whose signatures should be in the register , twenty-three had to affix marks . —Preston Chronicle . Incendiary Fire at Chalk , —On Sunday morning , between six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out on the Parsonage Farm , adjoining the high road at Chalk , near Gravcsend , in the occupation , of Mr . Lake , which destroyed a large bam containing about sixty quarters of barley , that had just been ( lu'osltoil , together with a sack containing six quarters of the same grain .
Noble Generosity . —At a recent meeting of the Town Council of Dingwall , on tin interesting discussion , relative to the potatoe disease , Provost Cameron stated that Mr . Maihosun , of tho Auchaiiy and the Lewes , was prepared , without reference to other arrangements , to order Indian corn to the
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ScvV / f ^' t 0 . beathand to supply the dcfl-Sg tStr inevHaWe fr ° *«« ^ P « niucY rr ! to , ^ f AILWAY E ? ™« oif .-On Monday last vll of £ ™ tw f-H in this city by the arrirOOOSundaTsenool ^ " / ' brin ^ »» , es 9 tlla » friends from jmI ° chlld , ren and 500 teachersnnd ( hevstaSfo ^ Soi fn'ro !! - " f , C , nC * sisting of 58 ^^ X ^^ S & ^ T entfines . —Gloucester Journal , } Pubuc BATus .-The large swimming-bath , now open for the use of the working cUsses , at the lowcharge of three-halfpence each , continues to attract numerous visitors . Rural Fetk at Drayton Manor . —On Wednesday last the labourers employed at Drayton Manor , with their wives and children , amounting to about 230 = persons , partook of an excellent dinner provided for them by Sir R . Peel . #
Bbxmjv Fair . — The pleasant fair hold at Bex * ley . in Kent , twelve miles from London , ended on Tuesday . To Star Gazers . — The planet Saturn , is now visible on clear nights , in the south-eastern quarter of . the heavens , between ten and eleven o ' clock . Foot Ease . —On Tuesday the one mile foot racelor £ 5 , between Langford , of Holloway , and Mills > . of Camden-town , was decided in the Holloway-road ,. and the latter pedestrian came in the winner by fiftyyards , iroinff over the one mile of road in fivemtnutea and ten seconds .
Death op thk Bishop op St . Asaph . — The Right Rev . William Carey , D . D ., bishop of the Welsh diocese of St . Asaph , expired on Sunday the 13 instant , in his 77 th year , at his town residence in Portland place . Increase # o * Suicides . —During the first sit months of this year the suicides , according to the return for the western districts of Middlesex , have more than doubled the suicides in those districts during the corresponding period of last rear . FnNERAt op Loud Metcalm . — On Tuesday afternoon , the mortal remains of Charles Theophilus , first and last Baron Metcalfe , were consigned to their last resting place , at Winkfield in Berkshire .
We are happy to learn that Colonel Dmmmond , of the Coldstream Guards , and nephew of Vice-Admiral Sir A . Drummond , of Meggineh , has established his claim to the chieftainship and the arms and supporters of the ancient house of the Drummonds of Goticriiip . —Perth Constitutional . ' How easily the " snob" of the Perth Constitutional is made "happy ! " ] Destructive Finn at Dover On Saturday afternoon , about three o ' clock , a fire broke out among * some wheat and fodder stacks , near Charlton brick fields , Charlton Bottom , Dover . In about an hour after the alarm had been given , the fire-engines arrived upon the spot ; but water could not be
obtained in quantities sufficient to enable the men to bring them into play , though , certainly , the fire had attained too great a height for it to have been effectually resisted , even if water lhad been abundant . By half-past four o ' clock , the whole of ten stacks ( six of which were of wheat , and four of fodder ) were completely enveloped in flames , and but a very trifling portion of the property was saved . Fortunately the wind , which blew stiffly during : theconflajrration , was in such a direction as to prevent the fire from being communicated to some new cottases in close proxU mity to the stack , or , in all probability , a much greater loss of property would have ensued . The oriein of the fire is yet much involved in doubt .
Omnibuses fob the Milliov . —Last { week a more than ordinary degree of curiosity was created at the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange , arising from a number of omnibuses appearing at various intervals during the day before these places , on which , were placed in large and legible characters the words , "From the Bank to Hacknev , 3 d . " Oninquirvit appeared , that latterly the Eastern Counties Railway have undertaken to convey passengers to Tottenham and back for 6 d ., being a distance often miles , which has had the effect of causing the omnibuses to perform the journev verv often with a solitary passenger ,. Whether it arose from the novelty , or from other cau ° es . the threepenny omnibuses were speedily filled ; and it is stated , that if the experiment should prove to be successful , the same scale will bo adopted with respect to the numerous suburban points connected with the metropolis , while for distances not exceeding one mile the charge will ba reduced to one penny .
Jvnw Postal Aurangemevts . —Negociationsarein progress between the Post-office authorities , and the Directors of the North Western Rail wav . by whieh mail trains will run from London to Liverpool under five hours . Fleet Street after being partially closed tor five weeks , for the purpose of being re-paved , was on Monday a ^ ain opened throimhout the entire line . The stone pavement just laid down , will , it is said , last for 20 years . Money Orders . —The money order office , at the branch establishment of the General Post Office , Charmg-cros ? , is now removed to that part of the buildins recently used as a sorting room for the London district post , where in future all applications for the issue and payment of money orders must'be made .
The Italian Opera at Covent-Garden Theatre . —It is said , among the vocalists already engaged for Covent-earden Theatre are Grisi , Mario , Persiani , Ronconi , Tamhurini , and Madame Viardnt . M . Costa has selected 80 instrumentalists for his band , and 60 singers for the chorus , whose engagements for three years have all been signed . A Railwat i . v Turkey . —The Journal des Chemins deFcr states on the authority of private correspondence from the East , that the Turkish Divan is at present occupied with the question of establishing railroads in Turkey . The Schoolmaster in the Coal Mines . —Two schools , on the Normal principle , are about to be established at Cramlington Colliery , for boys and girls ; and already an efficient master and mistress have been engaged .
On Saturday , a wedding , that was on the point of b ? ing celebrated between a young person of the Rue des Saint Peres , and a young man in the service of a chocolate maker , was suspended by an event of a very opposite nature . The union of tlie young people had the full consent of all parties , except the second husband of tho mother of the intended bride , who sternly objected to it , and declared that it should be prevented by some dreadful catastrophe . The nuptial party , however , was assembled , and on the point of proceeding to the mayory , when the obdurate father , in-law seized a knife and stabbed himself with it twice in the breast . He was ab-mt to repeat the strokes , when his wife wrested the knife from bim . His wounds are severe , but are not considered dangerous . The following strange paragraph appears in the Droit :- ~ li There is at this time , as a guest at the hotel of the Frascati baths , at Havre , an Englishman of most extraordinary eccentricity . According to a
positive convention between him and his landlord , every dish gei-vcd afc his table , and of which he has partaken , is immediately after his meal gathered up and carried in a boat thirty or forty fathoms out to sea , and thrown , overboard as food for the fishes , the Englishman retiring to an upper room , and ascertaining by a telescope that his orders are strictly obeyed . Larue joints of beef , turlues , fowls , in short everything , from the soup to the dessert , inclusive , is cast into the deep . "—[ h . foel and his money are soon parted . ] Revival op Richmond Fair . —This fair , which , after having been annually kept for many generations , was abolished towards tho close of Queen Elizabeth ' s reign , was revived , with the sanction of the proper authorities , on Monday last , and closed on Thursday . The novelty of the fair drew a large concourse of persons from all parts of the surrounding country , and on each of the three days during which it lasted , a great many individuals were attracted to it from London .
The Cobden Testimonial fund has this weekreaohed £ 73 , 400 . Mr . Justice Williams died on Monday evening , after an illness of a few hours' duration , at his country residence , Livermere Park , Bury . He was promoted to the bench about twelve yeara a ? o , toy tho Whigs , and showed his gratitude to his masters by the manner in which he administered "justice '' to the Dorchester Unionists , shortly after his elevation . Ills conduct on that occasion " damned him to everlasting fame , " and his deatli will create a vacancy for another Whig lawyer , and a general " move up " among the lego ) officers of tho party . Lucky Whigs ! . Rbi > ea & of the Malt Tax . —The members of tho East Kent Agricultural Protection Society met at Canterbury last Saturday , to consider how far the Malt Tax-affected the interests of agriculture . The meeting was numerously attended by the landlords
and tenants of the district , and the chair was occupied by Sir Brook V . Bridges the President of the Society . The meeting was addressed by Mr . Plumptrc , M . P ., Mr . Deedes , M . P ., and others , and a committee was appointed to confer with the Central Board of the Society for the Protection of British Industry , as to the best means of obtaining relief from the burden of the Malt Tax . Mr . Deedes in the course of his remarks observed : that Sir James Graham once said tbat the Malt Tax could not survive a repeal of tho Corn Laws a single year . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Now , as the Right Lion . Baronet had been mainly instrumental in repealing the Corn Laws , it followed as a matter of course that when the opportunity presented itself he would side with them in obtaining the removal of the Malt Tax . ( Cheers . ) None of the speakers suggested any substitute fol * the obnOSJOMS impo .-t
. „ . Some of the effects op Mr . O'Cossor ' s vTork on Small Farms .-A Mr . Charles Newman rraiding near Troupe , Norwieb , dibbled some wheat last autum ,, according to Mr . O'Connor's directions , and hns this year gained a prize for the very »*> P « io » crop of wheat , he had from one gram several ^ speu . mensofsevcnty-fiveears . and most y rwmfi trto ^ ty cars . Also , Mr . Thos . Reynolds of Philadelphia , near Norwieh , had from thirty to sixty-three ears to the grain , several of which were six inches long , the straw wai estimated to pay more than the cosJs Of the crop .
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